Matthew 6:21-23 -- On Hearts, Eyes, and Light

"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
Matthew 6:21-23


In life sometimes we feel like we are missing something, but aren't always sure what it is. Sometimes we throw various addictions into the void to try to fill ourselves up, but what is really missing is God... his love and light makes us whole. If we fill ourselves with darkness instead, we might feel temporary satisfaction, but that darkness just starts eating away at us, making the void bigger and can never make us whole... rather, it can make us forget ourselves and turn into people that we never wanted to be.

I think God is helping us to understand our direction and focus here by talking about hearts and eyes... what we love and what we look towards, those are things that are going to change who we are, and what we are filled with.

Today, let's work on being filled with light rather than darkness. Let's talk to God about who we really want to be, and who he knows we can be, and then let's work on that plan together.